Apify launches pay-per-use AI Agent data API toolbox
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Apify has launched Scraping Toolbox, opening 15 data scraping tools including Google Maps, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube as pay-per-event APIs, with a minimum of $0.002 per result. Claude, GPT, Cursor, and n8n can discover and call them directly via MCP without integration code. Agents without an Apify account can also pay per call in USDC on Base (x402). Apify says its free quota can be used for evaluation; many Actors provide dryRun for integration testing, but Apify platform usage fees may still apply.
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Apify's Scraping Toolbox offers 15 production-grade data APIs, including Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, RAG web crawling, review monitoring and AI-visibility tools, priced per event from $0.002 per result plus run fees where applicable. Claude, GPT, Cursor and n8n can discover and call the tools through the Apify MCP server, and agents without an Apify account can pay per call in USDC via x402 on Base.
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